A man caught up in the Boxing Day shooting that killed Aquil Richardson has described how he called an ambulance, and tried in vain to check for signs of life.

Jerome Martin – also known as Sky – told Supreme Court: "I dialled 911, I tried to listen for a pulse but my ears were still ringing (from the gunshots). I don't remember much. Just waking up the next morning and seeing it in the newspaper."

He was giving evidence in the Supreme Court trial of Antoine Herbert Anderson, 31, and Philip Anthony Bradshaw, 26. The pair stand jointly accused of murdering Mr. Richardson and shooting his friend Lavar Smith in the leg during the incident in Camp Hill, Southampton, in 2007.

Mr. Martin told the court he was with a group of friends that night, standing in the driveway of a house belonging to a man named Gladstone Butterfield. Mr. Richardson and Lavar Smith were with the group, as was a friend named Lekan Smith, and a couple of others whose names Mr. Martin could not recall.

He explained that he was about to leave because it was getting late, when a light-coloured bike pulled up just past them and stopped around ten feet away.

Mr. Martin said the pillion passenger spun around and started shooting and at first he just stood there because "it was unreal". Then, he said, "instinct just kicked in and we took off running".

"First I heard the flame, then I heard a bang, then two more bangs," he explained, adding that he heard two to three more shots while he was running to the back of the house, and one more when he got there.

He saw the others at the back but not Mr. Richardson – and realised that Lavar Smith had been injured.

"He dropped his pants and I just saw blood spurting out of his leg," he explained.

After the bike went off along Spice Hill Road, Mr. Martin described, with his voice cracking, how he returned to the front of the house to see where Mr. Richardson was.

"That's when I saw him laying there," he said, explaining that his friend was on his back and had been shot.

Mr. Martin could not describe what the men on the bike looked like because they had ski masks on which blacked out everything but their eyes, and full-face clear visors over this. He said they wore dark clothing, and the pillion passenger had fur on the hood of his jacket. He described the rider as "wider" than the passenger.

Mr. Smith was then questioned about a shooting in the same area around midnight the previous night – Christmas night – which left a man named Jakai Harford wounded. He told the court he was at home that night. Although he was aware the other shooting happened, he said he did not believe the two incidents were linked.

Benjamin Nolan QC, representing Anderson asked: "You indicated in a statement that as far as you were concerned, there was no question that either Mr. Richardson or Lavar Smith had anything to do with that?"

"No," replied the witness.

Pressed on this by Anesta Weekes QC, representing Bradshaw, Mr. Martin explained that he did not believe the shootings were connected "because we never had no problems with anybody. We don't bother nobody."

Pointing out that gossip gets around in Bermuda, Ms Weekes asked: "Did you hear word that a man called Trevor was responsible for the shooting of Jakai Harford?"

"No, not really," replied Mr. Martin.

"You don't know of any reason why someone should shoot at and kill your friend Aquil?" she asked later.

"No," he replied.

The case continues.